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English
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Every school and public library should update its resources on China with this engagingly written and succinct narrative history of China from prehistoric times to 2000. The world's oldest continuing civilization, China's technological, cultural, and philosophical developments have influenced the world throughout its long history. Wright, an expert on China, has written a fascinating history that not only makes the complex history of China clear to...
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Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
1380L
Physical Desc
ix, 278 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This informative but concise history of China and Southeast Asia is perfect for travelers, students, teachers, and businesspeople. Portable and attractively designed, it includes color illustrations, maps, and a brief history of the region. Explored are relations between China and Southeast Asia across two millennia; patterns of diplomacy, commercial networks, and migration; and how these have varied over time. With a focus on modern history, this...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1983.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 1002 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This is the first of two volumes of this authoritative Cambridge history which review the Republican period, between the demise of imperial China and the establishment of the People's Republic. These years from 1912 to 1949 were marked by civil war, revolution and invasion; but also by change and growth in the economic, social, intellectual and cultural spheres. The chapters examine economic trends in the period and the rise of the new middle class....
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1986.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xix, 1092 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This is the second of two volumes of this authoritative history which review the Republican period. The titanic drama of the Chinese Revolution is one of the major world events of modern times. The fifteen authors of this volume are pioneers in its exploration and analysis, and their text is designed to meet the needs of non-specialist readers. After a preliminary overview stressing economic and social history, the History presents a narrative of...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xx, 850 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
The Cambridge History of China is one of the most far-reaching works of international scholarship ever undertaken, exploring the main developments in political, social, economic and intellectual life from the Ch'in empire to the present day. The contributors are specialists from the international community of sinological scholars. Many of the accounts break new ground; all are based on fresh research. The works are written not only with students and...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1978.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvi, 713 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This is the first of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the decline of the Ch'ing empire. It opens with a survey of the Ch'ing empire in China and Inner Asia at its height, in about 1800. Contributors study the complex interplay of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and Ch'ing decline and restoration. Special reference is made to the Peking administration, the Canton trade and the early treaty system, the Taiping, Nien and...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxix, 864 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This volume deals with four non-Chinese regimes: the Khitan dynasty of Liao; the Tangut state of Hsi Hsia; the Jurchen empire of Chin; and the Mongolian Yuan dynasty that eventually engulfed the whole of China. It investigates the historical background from which these regimes emerged and shows how each in its own way set up viable institutions for the control of a multi-racial, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural population. It discusses these problems...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xix, 976 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This volume in The Cambridge History of China is devoted to the history of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), with some account of the three decades before the dynasty's formal establishment, and for the Ming courts that survived in South China for a generation after 1644. Volume 7 deals primarily with the political developments of the period, but it also incorporates background in social, economic, and cultural history where this is relevant to the course...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxi, 1203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
Volumes seven and eight of The Cambridge History of China are devoted to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), the only segment of later imperial history during which all of China proper was ruled by a native, or Han, dynasty. These volumes provide the largest and most detailed account of the Ming period in any language. Summarising all modern research, volume eight offers detailed studies of governmental structure, the fiscal and legal systems, international...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xx, 754 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This is the second of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the gradual decline of the Ch'ing empire in China (the first was volume 10). Volume 11 surveys the persistence and deterioration of the old order in China during the late nineteenth century, and the profound stirring during that period, which led to China's great twentieth-century revolution. The contributors focus on commercial and technological growth, foreign relations,...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxii, 753 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This volume of the Cambridge History of China considers the political, military, social, and economic developments of the Ch'ing empire to 1800. The period begins with the end of the resurgent Ming dynasty, covered in volumes 7 and 8, and ends with the beginning of the collapse of the imperial system in the nineteenth century, described in volume 10. Taken together, the ten chapters elucidate the complexities of the dynamic interactions between emperors...
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